Douglas Ollivant is the managing partner of Mantid International, currently working on the economic development of Iraq. He is an ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America, a Washington, DC think tank. He served tour tours in Iraq with the 1st Cavarlry Division and was the leader of the team that drafted the plan now known as the Surge.

This is a terrific pre election show featuring a well respected author and reporter, Shane Harris and former US Army Colonel James Kelsey, a spy master during the cold war. The discussion involves Russian espionage efforts against the US by use of cyber war tactics. Trump was not the anticpiated winner so our conversation is worth the listen.

In this episode we sit down and talk with Former Special operations Woman Rose Mattie. Now a mom and helicopter pilot, Rose will tell us about her exploits and those of the women featured in the book, Ashley's War. These women broke barriers and their butts to make history.